Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
@archeokluit Typfoutje denk ik, dat had vermoedelijk "de brand" moeten zijn 😅
@whreq Je kunt een heel eind komen door de ANWB-filemeldingen en wegstatus.nl te combineren! Als je er snel genoeg bij bent, althans.
health, ~
COVID vaccine acquired; now to feel slightly bleh for a couple days...
@whreq Het klinkt plausibel, maar ik ben niet helemaal overtuigd; want als ik in het verleden heb gezocht naar de oorzaak van een file bij slecht weer, was het eigenlijk altijd een ongeluk. Dat is een beperkte sample size natuurlijk, maar het is wel opvallend.
medical reference
So many hospital questionnaires to fill in 😒
@aylamz Not any one specific thing, I've just been noticing a lot of good things; where the ecosystem has some sort of problem, and it's promptly addressed in some way that is consistent with its ideals.
The latest case of this is https://godotengine.org/article/godot-sdk-integrations/ but it's a general pattern I've noticed, and even in that article there are some interesting remarks that imply a pretty solid foundation of governance
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Academia has a travel problem.
Attending faraway conferences is ecologically unsustainable, and creates a huge barrier to entry for people who are disabled, have care duties, or lack resources, among others.
One piece of the solution is to create local satellites of major conferences. This idea has been successfully implemented in Paris for #NeurIPS for a few years, and I'm happy to have joined the advising committee of NeurIPS@Paris (Dec 4&5 this year)
Check it out: https://neuripsinparis.github.io/neurips2024paris/
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one of my least favorite tropes is when a character starts nerding out about something and someone else shuts them down immediately
@how@s10y.eu (The "Why OFFDEM" link on the first page seems to be broken?)
Godot seems to be doing some quite interesting governance work.
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Godot overtaking Unity in one of the most recent, largest game jams out there is a wonderful example of the triumph of free software against a corporate platform. Something something Year of the Godot Desktop yada yada.
accident that didn't happen
@rune From what I've seen, that unfortunately often just creates escalation, and a shouting match over who was 'right'. I figure that giving them a good scare as to What Could Have Happened is going to stick a lot better.
(This may not work the same way in countries where drivers *aren't* automatically liable for hitting cyclists)
accident that didn't happen
@rune (They did eventually slam the brakes, at the very last moment)
accident that didn't happen
@rune I generally make a point of slowing down enough that I will not get hit by them, but not so much that it gives them a free pass to ignore it. Precisely for this reason.
The driver looked somewhat shocked, so I'm guessing that that had the intended effect.
accident that didn't happen
Speaking of accidents, almost got hit by a driver today on a crossing. They just raced through it, even though they don't have priority there, and I would've been hit if I hadn't been paying extra attention and slowing my speed.
@whreq Het weer is inderdaad een factor waardoor meer ongelukken gebeuren, maar ik vind het bijzonder dat in de headlines de stap "ongelukken" eigenlijk altijd weggelaten wordt, alsof niemand er iets aan kon doen en het slechts wat ongemak veroorzaakte i.p.v. letsel en/of doden.
Het is hetzelfde soort passieve en trivialiserende taal die je ook vaak ziet in de berichtgeving over ongelukken zelf (het is altijd "auto" en "fietser" maar nooit "bestuurder"/"autorijder" en "fiets, bijvoorbeeld), en het begint me op steeds meer plekken op te vallen.
Waarom zeggen we eigenlijk "drukke ochtendspits door onstuimig weer" zonder de toename in ongevallen te noemen waar het eigenlijk door komt? Alsof slecht weer magisch file veroorzaakt?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Zondag, 13 oktober: opening van kunstexpositie met dekoloniale performance tegen standbeeld van Coen
https://www.doorbraak.eu/13-oktober-hoorn-opening-van-kunstexpositie-met-dekoloniale-performance-tegen-standbeeld-van-coen/
Kunstcentrum De Boterhal
16:00 uur: opening expositie
16:30 uur: processie naar standbeeld Coen
Kerkplein 39
#Hoorn
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Journalistiek en de vloek van de talkshow
https://www.doorbraak.eu/journalistiek-en-de-vloek-van-de-talkshow/
"...een inherent falen van het talkshow-format: aan tafel wordt geen waarheid vastgesteld. Het gaat heel erg over meningen van de tafelgasten, maar expertise is daaraan ondergeschikt. Dus wordt expertise tot een mening gereduceerd."
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
